The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-10-26
THE TRUE BASIS OF JUDGMENT.

Me- Orleans Times Democrat.
While Mr. Zacharie was waxing fat at rural
barbecues and Messrs. White and McCsleb
were. soaring into the opalescent empyreaD
on wind-bursts of their own creation, Hon.
Newton G. Blanchard burnt the midnight
oil and concentrated his powerful intellect
i'll antl-thlrd-teru researches. Others might
wallow in buco!lc festivities and take on
and live laborious days the while he fashioned
his contempt for what he calls third-tel1n
ambition into glowing words and shapes OF
overwhelming argument.
Ihpre is something absolutely poetic in
i-Ir. Blanchard antaeonizing third terms.
He himself is just now entering upon. his
fifth, and is preparing to appropriate a sixth
and i'll a seventh; vet he has come forward
with yolnminous quotations from more or
less authoritative sources to show that he
Who harbOrs aspirations beyond second
term ID a traitor to our common liberties.
One would think the reform combination
needed no further comedy strength after BE-
curing Hon. John Fitzpatrick as an advo-
most browns the concern n rlchn 50.
1t seems to us, however, that the reform-
ers, in addressing so intelligent commune
ty as this, wonld better serve their cause by
abandoning these silly and shallow eXpedi-
cnts. Men who are engaged in the serious
affairs of life, who have substantial interests
at stake, have neither the leisure nor the IL
clination for idle humbug. They are con-
cerned as to the fruits OF government. They
look to the financial and industrial progress
of the common sealth. to the impartial
and faithful administration of the law,
to the security of life and property,
TO material DEVELOPMENT and to the
moral health. of society. The reckless abuse
and angry iinprecations INDUCED by the
| reform" orators weigh az nothing with
them when they consider tho facts. In his
address, delivered at Monroe last mouth,
Coy McErery invited eseverest scrutiny
! of his administration az regards its practical
results. He had nothing to say abont the
personal characters of the men who had been
| villifying and maligning him. He simply
reviewed the progress that had been made
| during his lncumbency-a progress OF which
! his detractors were also beneticiaries-
referred the. work Of the Louisiana Democ-
racy to the Judgment of his fellow citizens.
ness men of New Orleans can be deluded by
their silly and Incorporate outcry? The
state has, during the LAST five or six years,
| achieved q wonderful advance in all its ma
| terial interests. Vast areas of arabic lands
have been reclaimed by the splendid levee
system built UP under Gov McEnery. The
machinery of agricultural edu alton and ag-
rlcnltural Development has been enlarged
and strengthened. The States finances have
been set upon secure ami lasting basis.
Our school system has greatly improved,
cOnditiOn-every factor of our happiness and
prosperity has acquired new potency.
| DO the reform leaders imagine that sensible
| people can be persuaded to ignore these elo-
| qnent facts because they regale them with
unmcaning diatriGes and because tifth-terIn
| blanchard derlanns against secOnd-term as
pirationS in others?